I know this is a bit long, but I have no experience and am desperate for some advice from somone who has had a seizure.


I live with my boyfriend and he is epileptic. He hadn't had many seizures for while until christmas weekend. He had been on call for work, getting very little sleep and was playing video games for hours at a time. He said a few times during the weekend he was feeling "seizurey" and just wanted to get it over with. On sunday night he went out with his friend to the bars, didn't drink much and came home with him in an agitated state. I just assumed they were riled up from being out.


Sean (my bf) and i, my friend and sean's friend all went into the kitchen and started having a discussion about politics. My friend and I had been drinking quite a bit and watching movies, sean's friend drank quite a bit as well and came back with a $60 bar tab as opposed to sean's $7. Our roomate came home at that point and was not drinking at all, so I use most of his account of the situation as I was far from sober.


My roomate said sean started getting mad and talking non-sensablly, and then I remember his telling us all to get out of the house seemingly out of no where. There was no disagreement in the discussion to warrant this. We walked to the front of the house and sean's friend started trying to calm him down. I remember being in shock and just standing there and sean coming at me yelling, his friend getting in the way, and sean punching him a lot. This is not normal behavior for him.


The arguing went on for a while, sean went upstairs and his friend waited for him to come back down, he saw sean come down the stairs with a shotgun we keep loaded for protection and we all heard him yell "who wants to die?" and his friend yells out something about sean's having a gun as the rest of us cant see him. I tell my friend to leave and usher him out the backdoor. I don't know it but after he leaves and drives away he calls the police.


Sean's friend is still trying to talk him down and I wait in the kitchen, seemingly everytime I approach sean he becomes irate so I stay away. Our roomate realizes the severity of the situation and leaves out the backdoor also, after sean becomes irate again. Our roomate said that at the staircase, when he asked sean what he was doing, he said he didn't know and seemed very confused. He tried to get me to leave to but I stubbornly stayed.

I am alone in the kitchen and sean and his friend begin yelling in the front room again. From his friends account, sean kept pointing the loaded shotgun in his face and he kept moving it away. I don't remember much after that except sean chasing me into the backyard and locking the door behind me. After a few minutes outside with no shoes on I begin pounding on the door - sean's friend opens the door and said the police were there. They take him away and get video statements from us about what happened. Our roomate, the only sober person there, had left and the remainder of us never thought he had a seizure and were pretty shaken up and told the story as it happened.

Sean spent a few days in jail and is out on bond awaiting court. I am not supposed to see him because it is a domestic violence case, but after speaking with him I decided to come home after arranging to move. His account was convincing, he was medicated when he got out and very confused. He said he only remembered little bits of what happened and ended up having a seizure in the cop car that night and then when they called the ambulance he had a seizure there too.

He is being charged with felony menacing in a domestic violence category, even though I didn't press charges nor did anyone else. I care about him very much but also don't want to be a fool and have this happen again. He didn't take medication before but said he will now. He takes full responsibility and has remorse but he really dosent know what happened.


Finally my question, is this really a seizure? I can't find anything online that describes pre-seizure activity. His doctor said it might be aiws (alice in wonderland syndrome) but the description of that dosent seem consistent with his actions, plus it mainly happens to people who suffer from migrains.

Thank you.